Meetings are held because men seek companionship or, at a minimum, wish to escape the tedium of solitary duties. They yearn for the prestige which accrues to the man who presides over meetings, and this leads them to convoke assemblages over which they can preside. Finally, there is the meeting which is called not because […]
Companion Quotes
But in Marriage do thou be wise; prefer the “Person” before Money; “Vertue” before Beauty, the “Mind” before the Body: Then thou hast a “Wife,” a “Friend,” a “Companion,- a “Second Self;” one that bears an equal Share with thee in all thy Toyls and Troubles.
Never have a companion who casts you in the shade.
What men call social virtue, good fellowship, is commonly but the virtue of pigs in a litter, which lie close together to keep each other warm.
Poverty sits by the cradle of all our great men, and rocks them up to manhood; and this meager foster-mother remains their faithful companion throughout life.
By ourselves we can enjoy life, but to really appreciate life we must find companionship.
You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.
Tell me who you frequent and I will tell you who you are.
I am not so much inclined to wonder that marriage is sometimes unhappy, as that it appears so little loaded with calamity; and cannot but conclude that society has something in itself eminently agreeable to human nature, when I find its pleasures so great that even the ill choice of a companion can hardly overbalance […]
It is not often difficult to find a suitable companion, if every man would be content with such as he is qualified to please. But if vanity tempts him to forsake his rank, and post himself among those with whom no common interest or mutual pleasure can ever unite him, he must always live in […]
